Ecuador - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Ecuador was 248,360 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 276,840 in 1997 and a minimum value of 248,360 in 1998.

Definition: Land area is a country's total area, excluding area under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. In most cases the definition of inland water bodies includes major rivers and lakes.

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization, electronic files and web site.

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Year Value
1961 276,840
1962 276,840
1963 276,840
1964 276,840
1965 276,840
1966 276,840
1967 276,840
1968 276,840
1969 276,840
1970 276,840
1971 276,840
1972 276,840
1973 276,840
1974 276,840
1975 276,840
1976 276,840
1977 276,840
1978 276,840
1979 276,840
1980 276,840
1981 276,840
1982 276,840
1983 276,840
1984 276,840
1985 276,840
1986 276,840
1987 276,840
1988 276,840
1989 276,840
1990 276,840
1991 276,840
1992 276,840
1993 276,840
1994 276,840
1995 276,840
1996 276,840
1997 276,840
1998 248,360
1999 248,360
2000 248,360
2001 248,360
2002 248,360
2003 248,360
2004 248,360
2005 248,360
2006 248,360
2007 248,360
2008 248,360
2009 248,360
2010 248,360
2011 248,360
2012 248,360
2013 248,360
2014 248,360
2015 248,360
2016 248,360
2017 248,360
2018 248,360
2019 248,360
2020 248,360
2021 248,360

Rural land area (sq. km)

Definition: Rural land area in square kilometers, derived from urban extent grids which distinguish urban and rural areas based on a combination of population counts (persons), settlement points, and the presence of Nighttime Lights. Areas are defined as urban where contiguous lighted cells from the Nighttime Lights or approximated urban extents based on buffered settlement points for which the total population is greater than 5,000 persons.

Source: Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)/Columbia University. 2013. Urban-Rural Population and Land Area Estimates Version 2. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.e

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Year Value
1990 244,458
2000 244,458
2010 244,458

Urban land area (sq. km)

Definition: Urban land area in square kilometers, based on a combination of population counts (persons), settlement points, and the presence of Nighttime Lights. Areas are defined as urban where contiguous lighted cells from the Nighttime Lights or approximated urban extents based on buffered settlement points for which the total population is greater than 5,000 persons.

Source: Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)/Columbia University. 2013. Urban-Rural Population and Land Area Estimates Version 2. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.e

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Year Value
1990 10,906
2000 10,906
2010 10,906

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use